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An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions (2010)

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12822.
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Presentations to the Committee

Joseph K. Alexander, National Research Council (NRC), “Summary of the SSB report Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs: Engines for Innovation and Synthesis (1998),” January 22, 2009.

Joseph K. Alexander, NRC, “Summary of the SSB interim assessment letter report (September 2000) on responses to the 1998 research and data analysis report,” January 22, 2009.

Steven J. Battel, Battel Engineering, “A Business Perspective: Thoughts on NASA Research and Analysis Funding and Space Technology Development,” January 23, 2009.

Max Bernstein, Jack Kaye, Mary Mellot, Michael New, and Wilton Sanders, NASA, “Program Managers’ Perspectives on Mission-Enabling Activities,” March 12, 2009.

Richard Chapas, Battelle Eastern Science and Technology Center, “Perspectives on Research Management,” January 23, 2009.

Richard Fisher, NASA, “Strategies for the SMD Heliophysics Division,” March 11, 2009.

Michael H. Freilich, NASA, “Earth Observations Transitions from Research to Long-Term Data Acquisitions,” March 11, 2009.

Michael H. Freilich, NASA, “Earth Science Division Strategies,” March 11, 2009.

Paul Hertz, NASA, “Overview of SMD’s Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions,” January 22, 2009.

Martin H. Israel, Washington University, St. Louis, “Report of the Scientific Ballooning Assessment Group,” January 22, 2009.

Conilee G. Kirkpatrick, HRL Laboratories, LLC, “R&D portfolios, metrics, and transition at HRL Laboratories, LLC,” January 23, 2009.

Christopher Martin, California Institute of Technology, “A Roadmap for Revitalizing the NASA Astrophysics Sounding Rocket Program,” January 22, 2009.

Mike Meyers, NASA, “Planetary Science Division Goals,” March 11, 2009.

Jon Morse, NASA, “Astrophysics Division Strategies,” March 11, 2009.

Richard R. Paul, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company (retired), “Perspectives on Balance of R&T Budgets for a Federal Lab (AFRL) and an Industry (Boeing),” January 23, 2009.

Yvonne Pendleton, NASA Ames Research Center, “R&A: A View from the Inside,” January 22, 2009.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12822.
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Guenter Riegler, NASA (retired), “NASA Senior Review of the R&A Program,” January 22, 2009.

Robert Riemer, NRC, “Review of NASA Suborbital Mission Capabilities,” January 23, 2009.

Andrew Roberts, NASA, “Airborne Science Program: Observing Platforms for Earth System Science Investigations,” March 11, 2009.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12822.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12822.
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NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is applied to spaceflight missions, but NASA identifies nearly one quarter of the SMD budget as "mission enabling." The principal mission-enabling activities, which traditionally encompass much of NASA's research and analysis (R&A) programs, include support for basic research, theory, modeling, and data analysis; suborbital payloads and flights and complementary ground-based programs; advanced technology development; and advanced mission and instrumentation concept studies.

While the R&A program is essential to the development and support of NASA's diverse set of space and Earth science missions, defining and articulating an appropriate scale for mission-enabling activities have posed a challenge throughout NASA's history. This volume identifies the appropriate roles for mission-enabling activities and metrics for assessing their effectiveness. Furthermore, the book evaluates how, from a strategic perspective, decisions should be made about balance between mission-related and mission-enabling elements of the overall program as well as balance between various elements within the mission-enabling component. Collectively, these efforts will help SMD to make a good program even better.

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